English Question

Workshop: Planning Assignment 2

Part One: Plan Your Work (Due Wednesday)

Begin your planning work by answering the following questions. Post your answers in this forum:

  • Describe how you interact with the problem or issue on which you’ll be taking a stance. Perhaps tell a personal story. How does this problem or issue affect you?
  • Think about who needs to accept your point of view, or at least understand that your position is a valid and acceptable point of view. This will be your audience.
  • Describe how your audience interacts with this problem or issue. How does it affect your audience in a slightly different or similar way?
  • Think about what kind of rhetorical appealethos, pathos, logosmight move your audience to accept your point of view. Using the appeal that might resonate best with your audience, tell them why they should accept your point of view.
  • Craft a thesis statement. This is your central claimyour position. Think of your best reason for your position. It might be helpful if you use this skeleton for your thesis statement: “(Position) because (good reason).”

After you have answered all the questions, compose a draft of an introduction paragraph for your Assignment 2 essay. Submit that paragraph in this forum.


Part Two: Peer Feedback (Due Sunday)

Introductions are intended to provide the audience with the necessary context they need in order to accept an argument. Thinking as the writer’s audience–which should be obvious from their writingoffer feedback on a classmate’s introduction using these prompts:

  • In your own words, restate the writer’s position. Does it seem attractive to the audience?
  • Indicate the ways the writer made the position attractive to the audience.
  • List some ways the writer can make the position more attractive to the audience.
  • Suggest one way that the writer can make their issue or position more narrow.
  • Suggest one concrete way the introduction can be more specific (and, therefore, less general).
  • Suggest one concrete way in which the thesis statement can be more complex.

Requirements: as needed

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